Amhrán Mhuínse / The Song of Muínis - Líadan

[TheFionuir]

Go hálainn

[muisire]

padyboy86: your response is just what mine was the day I first heard it when I played their extraordinary CD 'Irish Traditional Music and Song'. I am still unable to fully take in this amazing Irish song from Connemara, a song that has no known author for the words or composer for the melody.

I put this song alongside Bach and Mozart and Schubert for its supreme grasp of what is in the heart of human beings, women and men alike.

Pride in Ireland - yes indeed.

[padyboy86]

My heart is bursting with Irish pride and love of this so from the deepest dept of a singer soul. Praise be to God...

[kornpedo]

I'm liking this, but what language is it? >.>

[finipops]

@kornpedo The language is Irish.

[muisire]

I suppose there is no explaining the heart's reasons - and my liking and your liking of this majestic song is something from the heart - but perhaps Yeats gets as close as it gets:

"I will arise and go now, for always night and day

I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;

While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,

I hear it in the deep heart's core."

Good man yourself, W.B.!

[firescri]

I wonder if the young singer from Connemara you heard singing this song was Caitríona Ní Cheannabháin. She does a beautiful job with it, and what a voice.

[muisire]

How I envy you your good fortune in being both - I have lots of notes in my head but my fingers are harmless (= useless) as my late mother would have said...

But I am so glad to be able share your pride in being Irish...

[Farmall211]

This kind of music makes me proud of being Irish, and a musician. Thank you for posting this. I haven't been able to find it for a long time.

[markusmul1000]

i like this song

[muisire]

Thank you very much indeed, Jazzy459...

[Jazzy459]

brilliant quality upload.

[BAC1954]

Hi, cuireann an tamhrain seo i gcuimhne dom ''The Rocks of Bawn. Go raibh maith agat , ta se go hailinn muise.

[PhillvanLeersum]

Beautiful. Thankyou for sharing that.

[muisire]

Thank you, 'annehochberg', for your words of praise and appreciation for one of my favourite recordings ever.

To find the text in Irish and in English, click on the tag line, "This is one of my favourite songs in Irish ever - or in any other language, c...".

The full text comment will open.

Scroll down until you find what you are looking for.

I feel sure you will like it.

[annehochberg]

Where is the text? I would love to see it - such a beautiful song, but I don't understand it.

[emilvansteenwijk]

Thank you for sharing this.

[muisire]

My apologies to anyone interested in the text of this great song. I noticed on Sunday 1 August that both the text and translation were completely wrong. I think I must have used a version sung by some other group or singer - there are many versions.

I have now used the text as given in the notes to the CD and have translated it again as best I could.

My apologies to one and all - gabh mo leathscéal...

[baawuffwuff]

@muisire

Thank for you that translation - it's nice to have the version that goes with the song you posted. As I listened many times to this over the last couple of weeks or so I find I can understand the Irish now having viewed the Irish lyrics you posted, I cant get anwhere near the tone of the lament - the caoineadh, though when I try to sing it myself.

[muisire]

For the words in Irish and in English click on the information text above that begins: "This is one of my favourite songs in Irish ever -"

[baawuffwuff]

Would anyone have the words to this song, in irish and english, as I love it very much but my Irish is very limited.

[MayoSham]

Nice Irish singing? Blas.

[MayoSham]

Nice Irish singing? Blas.

[HailHailKeano]

D'éistinn leis an amhrán seo go dtí deireadh mo shaol, iontach ar fad...

[marcyrak]

Love Irish music, very beautiful images too.

Hugs, Marcy ✿

[AnaJil]

Incredibly beautiful voice... Nice melancholic song... The last line made me cry... Many thanks for posting this video and for the wonderful translation!

Thanks so much my Irish friend for sharing ♫♫♫♫♫

[yeahbyme]

My ancestores were Soldiers of Fortune, they fought in the War of 1812 for the British in exchange for land in Nova Scotia. And they left their homes and families, and came to a cold raw country. And survived, prospered and are still proud celts.

[anfearcrionna]

draochtúil

[hakkamantis]

This song Stirs the soul.. bring back emotions from a past time. Thx for posting.

[muisire]

Go raibh maith agat, 'Irishmanandproud, I have just listened to it and I have to agree. Måirtin brings even more greatness to an already great song.

It is beyond believe that some unknown man or woman wrote these stunning words and that another unknown lifted it even higher with a magical melody.

[irishmanandproud]

@muisire yes a mhac,, as well as this girl sings it,, i reckon mairtins version is one of the best versions of any song ever, and thats a bold statement cos i know alot of singers and songs, in irish and english, notice how theres hundreds of people in the audience and he sings like hes, just in front of one or 2, ,alomost like in a trance,,, gets better every time i hear it, connemara abu,,,, erin go braigh""

[muisire]

Go raibh maith agat, 'Irishmanandproud, I have just listened to it and I have to agree. Måirtin brings even more greatness to an already great song.

It is beyond believe that some unknown man or woman wrote these stunning words and that another unknown lifted it even higher with a magical melody.

[irishmanandproud]

neart amhran, i reckon its the 2nd best version of it ive heard, ma bhfuil tu ag iarraigh eist ar an version is fearr, eist ar mairtin seoighe, ag casadh beo, i leeds, i 1985, ta se le fail ar an clar, siar an bothar, dochreithe,,,,

[prophet708]

ehhh..

[BlindObedienceBrutal]

Wow, that made me cry ... what is it about this song?

Who can even explain the beauty of it?

[muisire]

@BlindObedienceBrutal

Thank you.

It made me shake with sobbing too, not with sadness, but with an almost primeval kind of joy...

Where do such feelings spring from?

Where do such feelings spring from...

[Alexander316]

@muisire from the depth that you are and will always be

[Nanomachinist]

What an utterly sublime song.

[muisire]

@Nanomachinist

Yes, you're right - words fail me when I listen to it.

I am 72 years old but I do not mind admitting that I came close to shaking with emotional intensity as I prepared to post this clip. It has to be one of the tunes of glory...

[sheilamaclean]

Yes, Muisire - solo unaccompanied singing is very much the Gaelic tradition - much in evidence at the National Mod every year in Scotland - a test of pitch, tone, timing, empathy, understanding..telling the story in song. This singer is excellent, a real pleasure to listen to.

[muisire]

@sheilamaclean

Bonnie Scotland is not so far awa from our own green island and some of your Gaelic songs have gone right through my soul as in the BBC Alba series, 'Oran na Mna' in late 2008. The series was a revelation to me...

[sheilamaclean]

@muisire Yes our Celtic heritage of music and poetry set in song. Something beautiful which emerged out of so much suffering; listen to Karen Matheson - Iain Chlinn Chuaich (Live) on YouTube. It has the same achingly beautiful quality as this song.

[sifuzzi]

Thanks for one of the best irish songs ever!

[muisire]

@sifuzzi

Thanks for agreeing with me!

[draoi99]

Is é an amhrán is ansa liom freisin déarfainn, níor chuala mé John Beag á chanadh, má tá taifeadadh ag éinne ar bith cuir suas é!

[muisire]

@draoi99

GRMA!

Anois ta an leagan le John Beag ar an suiomh seo chomh mait agus ta me cinnte go mbainfidh tu taitneamh as...

[fiordaliso11]

Thank u so much for this , such a beautiful song

[muisire]

@fiordaliso11

I love it myself - like you I find it heart stopping and beautiful beyond compare

[ruadhani]

An-deas. Nach bhfuil?

[muisire]

@ruadhani

Deas agus fior dheas gan aon amhras - fag faoi na cailini e!

[switzercraftbullet]

john beag is very good singing that song one half of my famaly i from around muinish and the rest are from across the bay i know all the words to that song that song

[muisire]

@switzercraftbullet

Thanks for this - sorry for so slow a response - and I have now added John Beag's version for your enjoyment...